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I guess I'm not impressed. - Edit: not a bad release Live caption on device: Sounds great. Very useful if you are hearing impaired. If you just want captions f
by mpalczewski 7y ago
I guess I'm not impressed. - Edit: not a bad release
Live caption on device: Sounds great. Very useful if you are hearing impaired. If you just want captions for the words the are difficult to make out, some AI isn't going to help there. AI's are currently worse than I am at detecting words.
Smart reply: This looks useful. Not having to lose info as you create an appointment or less clicks copying and pasting directions. Yeah, great feature. Good job here.
Sound amplifier: Remember when everyone was up in arms because iPods could boost sound way too loud. (disregarding different source volumes and headphone sensitivity). So everyone limited the power output of their headphone jack. Well, now we've come full circle and we can blast our ear drums the way god intended, it just takes more button presses. This is like yeah, we took away a feature because of hysteria, now it's back.
Edit: Thanks for explaining this to me. This feature does indeed seem useful. Audio that is more clear, being able to hear what's around you, yeah this is great.
Gesture navigation: I hate this. Maybe some people like it. If you are one of those people, I'm happy for you.
Dark theme: I originally though this feature was dumb. Next we'll have gray theme, or blue theme. Battery savings just didn't seem that great. After using this for a while, I like dark theme, in an unexpected way. I find that the black colors are less stimulating and the phone is less of a distraction.
Digital wellbeing: I haven't found these features all that useful. Perhaps someone else makes use of them. I mostly see this as shaming for using the phone too much.
Focus mode: Remember that one android release that made it so you can easily block all notifications from an app. Well, later they made it so you can only easily block a category(can still block all just more presses). Then apps can create as many categories as they want(so you keep getting spammed). This time they didn't do the user friendly release, in order to focus you have to check each app you have installed. Completely backwards like they didn't really want to do this feature.
Family link: I'm not a parent, kids and phones sound like a nightmare to me. I hope this helps you parents. No opinion from me.
- skybrian 7y agoThis is really quite cynical, particularly about sound amplifier. It should be very useful to the millions of people who are hearing impaired, but haven't gotten a hearing aid yet. (Most people tend to put this off for a while.) There's some irony that some folks might have gotten hearing loss from headphones in the first place, but it sounds like a useful feature.
- mpalczewski 7y agoIt will be useful to me, but there's already a volume button. Would be nice if that just worked, instead of it being nerfed. The volume limitations only made sense if you never used headphones less sensitive than the oem ones and listened to source audio that was only at maximum volume all the time.
- justusthane 7y agoBut Sound Amplifier isn't about making the phone's audio louder - its purpose is to amplify the sound in the room around you and filter background noise. I think you're misunderstanding the feature.
- kmnt 7y agothey call it an amp but store description makes it seem like it compresses
- fstephany 7y agoA great intro to hearing loss and what it takes to make an hearing aid device: https://medium.com/@AMP/cant-you-just-turn-up-the-volume-4ecb7fc422a https://medium.com/@AMP/cant-you-just-turn-up-the-volume-4ec...
- techntoke 7y agoOne thing I like on Pie, is after clearing a few notifications from an app that I don't care to see it automatically prompts me to stop showing them.
- michaelmior 7y ago> Sound amplifier I haven't tried it, but it sounds like this would also be useful if you want to wear headphones to avoid bothering others but you still want to clearly hear what's going on around you.
- legohead 7y agoI've had Family Link on my Pixel2 since 2018 (and my daughter's Moto X4). It has been very useful and is a great app. Strange to list it as a feature for Android 10, but maybe not a lot of people know about it? Live caption sounds great to me since my wife's family is Russian and I don't speak it very well. We video chat with grandma often and I'm not really involved...
- Nagyman 7y ago> Live caption on device: Sounds great. Very useful if you are hearing impaired Many people use their phone in spaces where audio wouldn't be well received (and headphones weren't worn). Examples where I'd prefer captions over audio: when I'm commuting, in a loud space, at work, waiting in a doctor's office, anywhere where I don't want to silence all outside sounds with headphones, but would like to watch the video and read what's said. With song lyrics and audio books, I'd like to hear and read.